Book Highlights: Eat That Frog (Brian Tracy)

This book helped me understand how we can overcome procrastination and what we can do to get more things done in less time.

📙 About The Book

Title: Eat That Frog: 21 Great Ways To Stop Procrastination And Get More Done In Less Time
Author: Brian Tracy

🙋 Who Should Read It?

Anyone who has a habit of procrastination and is looking for effective strategies and steps to overcome it should definitely read this book.

👀 Impressions

The book is a good read and gave me some good practical insights into how one can overcome procrastination in daily life. Picking up and finishing the most important and challenging task as the first task each day can have the greatest positive impact on one’s life and career.

💡 Key Points and Ideas

There is never enough time to do everything you have to do.

You can get control of your time and life only by changing the way you think, work, and deal with your responsibilities and that can only be done to the degree that you stop doing certain things and instead start spending more time on the few activities that will make all the difference.

Some techniques and methods when repeated over and over until they become habits can alter the course of your life in a very positive way.

A few important points to note:

1. Learn from successful
   Learn from successful people and try to do the same things until you get the same results.
2. Successful people do things differently
   People who are doing better than you are not necessarily better than you. It is just that they are doing better than others because they do things differently and they do the right things right. They use their time more wisely and judiciously than the average person.
3. Successful people focus on the most important task
   The ability to focus on the most important task, accomplish it, and finish it completely is the key to earning great success, achievement, respect, status, and happiness in life.
4. Selecting the most important task has the greatest impact
   The ability to select and accomplish the most important task and do it quickly and well will create the greatest impact on your success.
5. Successful people act immediately
   Successful people take action immediately rather than holding endless meetings and making wonderful plans. They show discipline to work steadily and single-mindedly on their most important tasks until those are completed.
6. Your habits determine your success
   Your success is determined by the kind of habits you exhibit over time.
7. Practice and repetition matters
   The habit of setting priorities, overcoming procrastination, and getting done with your most important task is a mental and physical skill that can be learned by practice and repetition over time.
8. The 3-Ds of habit formation
   The three Ds of new habit formation are the key qualities to develop the habits of focus and concentration. The three Ds are Decision (to develop the habit of task completion), Discipline (to practice the principles of new habit formation), and Determination (to practice until the habit reaches the point of automaticity).
9. Visualize yourself as you want to be
   Visualize yourself as you want to be and let it drive the process of improvement in your life.
10. Your perspective of how you see yourself determines your performance
    The way you see yourself on the inside largely determines your performance on the outside.

Find the summary and notes of this book here.

Do check out All Things Books and follow Arundhati Gupta for more such book highlights, summaries, notes, reviews, recommendations, etc.

Show your support by 👏 if you liked the article! 🙂